Elicia Frie
Ms. Schultz
Written Com. 6th
02/1/13
Bucket ListBecoming closer to one’s self begins with nature. Great experiences are created in nature because there are no limits. I have a wide range of opportunities just waiting for me. I want to break out of the social norms such as going to work from 9-5, coming home to chores, and then repeating it the next day. I want to also get away from the city’s hustle and bustle and start to find myself in nature. By challenging myself to rock climb up Mt. Everest, hug and orangutan on the island of Malaysia, and water ski on the Nile River, I will develop a sense of who I am while exploring nature along the way. I want to bare my feet in the soil just inches away from the chilling, mile high rock known as Mt. Everest. When I reach my hand out, I want to know that the next time my feet have the honor of resting upon sturdy ground will be when I hoist my leg over that final ledge, reaching the top. When I pull my hand away I see an outline of my diligence left behind on the rock. I grab the ice cold bottle from my side pouch and replenish my dry throat with the taste of country clean water. I lick my dusty lips and snap on the final silver buckle to my tightly wound harness. I begin my ascent just like anything else, one foot after the other. I feel my knee scrap hard against the cold sharp rocks. I feel my blood gushing out and trickling like a stream down my leg. I feel a repeat of these feelings as my elbow scraps against the rough brush on my left. As I reach half way, I start to feel the pain rippling down my forearms and into my upper body. It is a feeling that I have never felt before. It is also the aching feeling that I prepared myself to endure prior to the mounting of this great creature. I’ve taken into account all of the creepy crawlies that will scamper past my eyes. I’m ready for this climb. Every minute that goes by is another test of my being, pushing me to the edge, but not enough to make me...

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Have you ever tried milk straight from the cow? I haven’t so the first thing on my bucketlist that I want to share is milk a cow. I know it sounds funny but it is something I have always wanted to do since my friend told me about it and said it tastes...

...whether they were able to enter or not. Have you found joy in your life? Has your life brought joy to others.” This quote came from Carter Chambers, played by Morgan Freeman in the movie “The BucketList.”
The BucketList is a movie about two men who meet in the cancer ward and are roommates. Both men form an unlikely friendship as they come from different walks of life. One is a very wealthy man, the other, a mechanic who worked his whole life to support his family. They are both diagnosed with cancer and are given less than a year to live.
Carter Chambers is the mechanic and Edward Cole (played by Jack Nicholson) is the corporate billionaire who owns the hospital they meet in. Carter begins writing a “bucketlist.” The bucketlist is a list of things he would like to do before he “kicks the bucket”. Edward finds Carter’s bucketlist and decides to add to it and help him fulfill his wishes before he dies.
Carter’s bucketlist consisted of simple wishes such as “help a complete stranger, “find joy in your life”, “laugh until I cry” and “witness something truly majestic”. When Edward revised the list he added things on like skydiving, getting tattoos and traveling to different places around the world. Together they both set off to begin crossing...

...ENGLISH - 09/16/10
BUCKETLIST MOVIE
1. Compare and contrast the 2 main characters of the story.
ANSWER:
Edward Cole and Carter Chambers are two different people coming from opposing worlds. Cole was a billionaire who earned his fortune in the health care world while Chambers is a mechanic who is also a gifted amateur historian. He was divorced for a number of times while he had never been with any woman in his life but his wife alone. He was cranky but oddly charming while he showcases an extraordinary ease of being. He was a blabbermouth but he was relaxed and soft-spoken at all times. Even in their bucketlists, their contrasting personalities really shows. Cole added their mainly material things, those could be acquired if you have the money but Chambers chose a to-do list which sounds simple but quite complicated to attain. He was rich in money while he was rich in love from his wife, his children, his family.
2. Based on the film, how does cancer affect the person and the people around him?
ANSWER:
Cancer affects the person and the people around him in so many ways. On the person, it unmasks his vulnerable side – sick, pained &amp; frightened of death. It makes the person ponder on how he spent his life and how it would end. It makes the person think of how is he going to spend the last days of his life in a good way. It affects the people around him by letting them...

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The BucketList
The BucketList is a 2007 American comedy-drama film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. First of all i want to give some information about the film. Carter Chambers (Freeman) and billionaire hospital magnate Edward Cole (Nicholson) meet for the first time in the hospital after both have been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Carter and Edward seem to find common ground as they have intellectual personalities. Carter begins writing a "bucketlist", or things to do before he "kicks the bucket". After hearing he has less than a year, Carter discards the list. Edward finds it the next morning and urges Carter to do everything on the list and offers to finance the trip for both of them. Carter agrees, and despite the protests of his wife, Virginia (Todd), Edward and Carter begin their around-the-world vacation.This film relates to Gestalt Theory. Gestalt psychology tries to understand the laws of our ability to acquire and maintain meaningful perceptions in an apparently chaotic world. The central principle of gestalt psychology is that the mind forms a global whole with self-organizing tendencies. This principle maintains that when the human mind (perceptual system) forms a percept or gestalt, the whole has a reality of its own, independent of the parts. Gestalt is a perspective that...

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I can hardly recall how my best friend and I met, but I do remember not liking her so much as it takes a lot for me to call someone a friend. Luckily, fate had a different plan and gave me a shoulder I can always lean on. There are countless reasons how people are drawn together, but I have always believed it is in our human nature to reach out and make a connection. A film called The BucketList tells the story of two ailing men from completely different worlds become roommates in a hospital, after being diagnosed with a terminal lung cancer, which led Carter Chambers and Edward Cole to a journey in search for life changing connection.
Morgan Freeman plays the role of Carter Chambers, whom in his early years aspired to have a profession in History, but landed as a mechanic; a job appointed by life. Black, broke and baby on the way, Chambers embraced the first decent job given to him and made a career of it for over forty years. The film begins with Carter receiving a phone call from Virginia, allowing the audience to quickly forecast the predicament he was in. After quick deliberation Carter takes a quick glimpse at the lit cigarette he was smoking before letting it drop to the floor, as he walked baffled by the news his wife Virginia delivered.
Chambers finds himself fighting for his life in the hospital waiting for results where he meets Edward Cole, a role played by Jack Nicholson, a...

...BucketList
The BucketList was an amazing movie; it was a movie that showed two older men on a journey to find the meaning of life. Mr. Edward Cole a corporate billionaire and a scholarly mechanic Carter Chambers met in the hospital because they both had Cancer. The time that they spent together in the hospital did not only bring them great friendship but also together they found the joy and meaning of life. While sitting in the hospital together slowly dying from cancer they decided that they were not ready to die and they still had a lot of things they wanted to do for themselves before it was too late. So, they made a bucketlist, and decided to escape the hospital and do everything that they always wanted to do.
Carter Chambers was married to his dear wife, Virginia, for 45 years he had a happy marriage and a wonderful family but, Mr. Chambers felt as if something was missing. He explained that for the last forty five years of his life were mostly dedicated to his family and wife, now he wants to have time for himself and do the things he always wanted to do, but didn’t get a chance to do. Even though his friend Edward Cole was a billionaire; he also felt as if there was something missing out of his life, he had a lot of money and many divorces, and a daughter that he has not spoken with, that didn’t make him feel like he had the true meaning to life.
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...-Christine Baligat , Philippines
The Movie the BucketList is all about two different Old men , Edward and Carter. Edward is the wealthy one , he is the owner of the hospital where he met Carter. Edward believes that money can give all of the happiness in the world. While Carter is just a mechanic working for the sake of his family. The two met in the hospital owned by Edward , they are in a same ward so they got to know each other. They are both cancer patients and one day they have the news that they only have few months to live their lives.After the news Carter started to write the BucketList. The bucketlist is filled with activities that will make Carter happy and fulfill everything he wants before he dies. Edward saw the BucketList that Carter wrote and he pursue Carter to do it, and so they did all the things that is written in the list and they really have fun and been happy about it. While they are enjoying the checklis , Carter founds himself that the only thing he wants is the love and being with his family before he goes. Carter tries to get Edward to do the same.
Carter ends up in dying by cancer , after carter died Edward realize that he has to find his only daughter who is being lost , luckily he found his Daughter and he even has a Grandaughter that he did'nt even expect. Then Edward suddenly die too because of...

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Knowing your death in order to make a bucketlist. In this argument i'm going to argue that you do need to know your death date to make a efficient bucketlist. Useing the book "The five people you meet in heaven", and also the movie "The bucketlist". I'm going to give prime examples and reasoning from these two in order to create this argumentive paper.
In the book The five people you meet in heaven there is the main character named Eddie, Eddie is a war vet and currently works at Ruby pier. His whole like he wanted to do somthing with his life and not end up like his abusive father and work at ruby pier his wole life. Eddie woudl always tell his mother about the dreams he has for when he grows up but his father would always laugh and counter attack his thoughts. His dream was to be a mechanic. (?) He met His later to be wife Marguerite (ch 1) at ruby pier. When he grew up and married marguerite after the war she wanted a baby to start there lifes (165), But Eddie was always scared to have a child. They planned on adopting one but Eddie backed out of it. So just by the few things it shows that Eddie has a hard time with going through with things like his goal in life and having a child. I think if Eddie would have made a bucketlist of things to do before he died he would have had alot more funnier healthy life, because after his wife died he had...